Started with protests in Daraa in 2011, the Syrian conflict rapidly turned into a war with a number of foreign powers supporting various militant groups (including al-Qaeda-linked) against the government of Bashar al-Assad. Since then, the country has been a point of instability in the Middle East.Russia began a military intervention in Syria in 2015 after an official request by the Syrian government for military help against militant groups.This allowed the Syrian government to survive and to regain initiative in a battle against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda), ISIS and other militant groups.

Map Update: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Expansion In Northwestern Syria

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This map provides a general look at the current military situation in northwestern Syria. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has significantly expanded its control within the Idlib de-escalation zone and is workong to expand it further.

So HTS (Al-Qaeda) is rearranging the deck chairs. Their ship is still going to hit an iceberg and sink, the question is, “when”.

Promitheas Apollonious

is more accurate to say the turks rearranging the deck.

Master Oroko

Looks like Idlib province might as well be called Terroriststan.

Willing Conscience (The Truths

This is the third map in 2 days that doesn’t appear to be very accurate, and they’re all different from each other, and I don’t mean they’re different to each other because they progress from the first to the third showing the continuing expansion of HTS, I mean they all appear to be different from each other full stop.